Catalyst 2016 - Brian Houston

What is success? Building a platform for the next generation for success.

If I can build a platform to set up the next generation to win I feel I would have fulfilled my calling.

“Set your mind now on sons— don’t dote on father and grandfather. You’ll set your sons up as princes all over the earth. I’ll make you famous for generations; you’ll be the talk of the town for a long, long time.”

Psalm 45:16-17 MSG

I want to build princes. I want to build people.

In Australia alone we have 29 locations and over 60 services each weekend.

If you start anything at the right time and with the right people, it’s incredible how God will bless it.

Honor the past. Live for today. Build for tomorrow.

The most effective opportunities I’ve had have been in the last seven years.

Leave room for the next generation to flourish.

I get so excited to have young leaders around me who are youthful and passionate for the Lord.

A lot of people like be comfortable and be in control. A lot of usdon’t like surprises. A lot of people like safe. We like comfortable. We want to be in control. But the predictable isn’t where the hope is. It should be an adventure living with Jesus. Let’s cling to spontaneity. I love being around spontaneity.

It was an adventure living with Jesus. Living today should be an adventure serving with Jesus.

Life with Jesus was not safe. It was not structured. It was a ride living with Him.

In John 4, Jesus talks to a Samaritan women which was not part of the culture. Life with Jesus wasn’t safe. It was a ride to live with Jesus.

Predictability has been the bane of the church. It has stopped from the church from being to the fullest. Human beings cling to the status quo, popular belief, conventional wisdom, established thought, majority opinion, peer pressure. Those are the things that keep us predictable.

But, of course, there are times where predictability is your friend, such as loyalty and credibility. Also, when it comes to leadership, predictability will be asset when it comes to your vision.